This stuff is great.

[Peter Venkman]

So i snagged a bottle of this Defluxer from work and Ive been using it after i solder my boards and knife all the gaps and between the strips. My boards are coming out with a much cleaner look, Im getting less shorts between rails, and don't have tons of flux slime all over the place anymore.
You only need to spray a little bit out onto the brush and then just scrub. You all probably knew about this stuff and are thinking I'm super late to the party, but It's really helped me with clean up and fault finding.

Im also digging the 62SN 36PB 02AG solder. Ive turned my soldering iron down a full 90 degrees F since switching. This page rules, you all rule, this forum rules, later....

[Silver Blues]

Yeah dude the silver-bearing solder is awesome. I ran out the other day and the store didn't have any so I got a small spool of MG 63/37 and while it's good, it's just not the same.

[Peter Venkman]

I had my boss stock up on the 2% Silver 1 pound spools after we ran out of pocket pack samples from Kester. Now its all we use at the store. We carry a variety of other types but when it comes to repairs or personal projects we go straight for the silver.

I was using a vintage ( like 50 years old ) spool of Kester 44 that was on one of the retired techs work benches, the first part of the roll worked great but as I got toward the center of the spool the solder got really brittle and didnt flow at all, as soon as you'd add heat it would just turn to smoke and burn off.

the de-fluxer spray is so great. I get so many old reel to reel machines and stereos for repair that have PCBs that are just caked in 30 year old flux that I used to have to scrub off with a wire brush. I didn't even know we sold this stuff because it was on the shelf right next to the canned air and looks just like it. Had to pick it up, read the label then try it out. It works wonders for cleaning up your board after soldering then knifing all the gaps. Ive had shorts and ground faults in the past that turned out to be just globs of flux and scrapping from where I knifed the gaps.